A carb controlled diet

Hi Marie--

Water retention/swelling might also be from wheat/gluten. I know that for me, personally, while I can't lose any weight eating rice and potatoes, its the wheat that causes extreme inflammation and water retention. Its almost immediate, like an allergic reaction. When I abstain from wheat and sugar (not nearly as bad as wheat, but it also causes inflammation for me), I don't have that problem.

Of course, if you're perfect and are eating absolutely no grains or sugar, figuring out "what's worse" may not matter so much. But, if you sometimes falter like I do, knowing that I'm better off having some rice than a slice of wheat bread is valuable information.

And actually since the brain is made up of more than 65% fat, it does better on fats than carbs.

The human brain is 75% water just like the rest of our tissues. Your "science" is inaccurate.

Physical Attributes

These facts will teach you interesting bits of information about the physical make-up of the human brain.

1.Weight. The weight of the human brain is about 3 lbs.

2.Cerebrum. The cerebrum is the largest part of the brain and makes up 85% of the brain’s weight.

3.Skin. Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain.

4.Gray matter. The brain’s gray matter is made up of neurons, which gather and transmit signals.

5.White matter. The white matter is made up of dendrites and axons, which create the network by which neurons send their signals.

6.Gray and white. Your brain is 60% white matter and 40% gray matter.

7.Water. The brain is made up of about 75% water.

8.Neurons. Your brain consists of about 100 billion neurons.

9.Synapses. There are anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 synapses for each neuron.

10.No pain. There are no pain receptors in the brain, so the brain can feel no pain.

11.Largest brain. While an elephant’s brain is physically larger than a human brain, the human brain is 2% of total body weight (compared to 0.15% of an elephant’s brain), meaning humans have the largest brain to body size.

12.Blood vessels. There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the brain.

13.Fat. The human brain is the fattest organ in the body and may consists of at least 60% fat.

I tried an ultra low carb diet, but I exercise a lot, and just lost the energy. I eat good, complex carbs now in moderation and my energy levels are a lot higher. I'd like to hear from people on no/low carb diets that can run say 10 miles comfortably, or burn say 1000+ a day.. I couldn't do it.

High-fat, low-carb diet may reverse kidney failure: study

Wed Apr 20, 5:10 pm ET

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Kidney failure is a main complication of diabetes, but a lab study on mice showed that a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet could reverse that in eight weeks, US researchers said Wednesday.

The extreme food plan is known as a ketogenic diet and is often used to treat children with drug-resistant epilepsy. It starves the body of carbs and sugars, thereby tricking the body into burning fat for fuel instead of glucose.

The diet is so restrictive it must be devised with an expert's help. Meal options may include scrambled eggs with cream, a bacon and butter omelet, or lettuce doused in mayonnaise.

Doctors theorized the diet might work for diabetics by blocking the toxic effects of glucose, a simple sugar made as the body metabolizes food but that can become harmful in diabetics who lack enough insulin to regulate it.

So the team at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York took two groups of mice that were genetically predisposed to having Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. Half were fed a standard, high-carb diet while the other half received a ketogenic diet.

After eight weeks, kidney failure was reversed in the ketogenic-fed mice, said the study published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE.

"Our study is the first to show that a dietary intervention alone is enough to reverse this serious complication of diabetes," said lead author Charles Mobbs at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

"This finding has significant implications for the tens of thousands of Americans diagnosed with diabetic kidney failure, and possibly other complications, each year."

According to the National Institutes of Health, 24 million people in the United States have diabetes, and close to 180,000 people are living with kidney failure linked to their diabetes.

Mobbs said the diet is not likely to be suitable as a long-term fix in humans, but said the findings indicate even as little as a month on the regime could be enough to "reset" the body and avoid kidney failure.

Mobbs said the findings should "help us identify a drug target and subsequent pharmacological interventions that mimic the effect of the diet."

His team is planning more studies to explore the ketogenic diet's impact on other neurological diseases such as retinopathy which causes loss of sight

Cora, There is alot I don't understand about this yet. I got the everyday paleo book and she is saying we can have most fruit. I thought we were to stick to berries. Also. Do we need to count calories. I am keeping my food chart so I can keep aan eye on my carbs and do we need to used the net carbs. amy is doing fantasic on it. She is looking so good. So proud of her. I am trying tp leave all of my learning on other diets. I can not eat as much protein as some of you on account of my kidney failure I am eating two eggs every morning to keep my
energy up but I really rather have cereal and milk. and fruit. i don't like to cook.
well it is time to cook. dinner. not much a baked apple and some squash.